It's official. I'm saving up to buy myself a new PowerBook. It'll take a while, but the prospect of a Mac running OS X is just too much for me not to try to get. Plus, I've never had a laptop, and I look forward to the portability.

There's no way that I would ever switch over to owning a Windows machine. It's just too frustrating and clunky to me. I definitely prefer the ease and the style of using a Mac. And it just seems that more and more these days, owning a Mac puts you among the creatively elite. So I'm proud to say that I've been the proud owner of an Apple computer since the sixth grade.

In some strange way, I find that Mac users tend to gravitate towards each other. One of my co-workers told me that she was friendly with a lot of creative people and needed to surround herself with them because they stimulated her mind, and later on I found out she's a Mac person, along with several other co-workers. I just found out a couple of days ago that another one of my friends here is a Mac person. One of my roommates is a Mac person. Someone's even started a magazine about famous Mac people, and it says that Public Enemy's Chuck D, the guys from Underworld, William Shatner and Kevin Smith are all Mac people. I spot Macs being used in TV shows and movies all the time -- Sarah Jessica Parker's character uses one in "Sex & The City," and Jeff Goldblum's character used one to save the world in Independence Day. And now there's a club in New York where people can DJ using Apple's iPod.

So go ahead. Join us in the Cult of Mac. We'll be waiting for you to break free of the bonds, and, like Homer Simpson, become a Spaulding Gray in a Rick Dees world.